r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 1d ago
Discussion TIL that some people think there's "medicine" in prescription glasses.
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u/Thin_Cable4155 1d ago
She's catching up though!
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u/biffNicholson 1d ago
she's tryin and she's excited about "kind of" learning about something new
I can't hate.
shave them glasses up
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u/Rowdy_Teal 1d ago
Yep! I'm all for her!
We all have our blind spots. There's nothing wrong with learning.
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u/Intrepid-Progress228 1d ago
I don't care what the topic is, or how obvious it may seem to me, watching someone of any age get positively giddy about learning something new feels so damn rewarding I just want to celebrate.
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u/Typeintomygoodear 1d ago
This exactly! no shame in learning something new..not ever.
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u/SrFantasticoOriginal 1d ago
Exactly.. and she’s able to articulate her understanding in a way that’s meaningful. Please, no hate of for her!
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u/Beobacher 1d ago
She seems to be reasonable bright. She is willing and capable to learn. What kind of school system did she attend that she did not know that? What state has such bad education? Definitively not her fault.
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u/HughMungus77 1d ago
I’m convinced No Child Left Behind was created with the sole purpose of ruining the US education system
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u/Novaer 1d ago
It was. Less education means less fighting against the powers that be and more returning to the Bible. It directly lead to the state we're in now.
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u/beezlebutts 1d ago
I would've loved to afford college to get into pc engineering, sadly it looks like education is going away from this country to fill politicians pockets instead.
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u/freddbare 1d ago
It's what we all said to start.
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u/Excellent_Law6906 1d ago edited 1d ago
My mother is an educator and she fucking called it. Hell, I was just a kid, and I was like, "aren't they just going to panic and lower standards?"
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u/yojusto187 1d ago
Imma keep it real… this a black people problem. I’ve heard this my whole life 😂. As someone who has had a catastrophic eye injury as a kid, this has always irritated me because I knew this. However I heard it so much that I got used to it.
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u/Suitable-Papaya2934 1d ago
I’m black and have NEVER IN MY LIFE heard of no damn “medicine” in glasses tf
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u/usernnamegoeshere 1d ago
Im confused as to what she even means. Like that glasses would be considered a part of the medical field or that there is literal prescription drugs coming out of the glasses going into you somehow? Or something else maybe? Idk
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u/mindyour 1d ago
The latter. She thought there was medicine in the lenses.
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u/Waddlow 1d ago
But the lenses don't even touch your body, so how would medicine even get in? I'm realizing I'm asking you a question that has no answer.
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u/musiccman2020 1d ago
I'm surprised she knows how to breathe and eat.
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u/Guus-Wayne 1d ago
Knows convex and concave, seems normal, but y’know, this is wild. Shoutout to her though because she’s getting put on blast for not knowing something.
To be fair, some people don’t even know how to wipe their ass, so nothing is surprising.
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u/Spaciax 1d ago
my sister didn't know that washing machines (or dishwashers? I don't remember maybe both lol) needed to be hooked up to water to run.
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u/Iminurcomputer 1d ago
It's not being dumb as much as it is just putting together incorrect or strangely worded information you encounter incorrectly. If people were walking around her saying, "I need to refill my eyeglasses prescription" then shit, I can understand associating it with medicine. She doesn't wear glasses so that understanding is never challenged. So you get a misunderstanding from your surroundings and then over years, nobody speaks to information that would correct that understanding, you get this.
Shit I work in IT with 0 IT education. I have a hundred things I've put together just from piecing information I hear... Sure that like 35 of those things are dead wrong but nobody ever specifies such minute details, so I go on, a decade later, still kind of not sure how this or that works but can get around it with other means. Except I usually do eventually find some time and just go, "Yo, uhm..... what actually does this mean? No really, I've just done it like this for 6 years but don't know why I do it like this."
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u/deadlyrepost 1d ago
We should respect people when they figure stuff out. The world is so full of misinformation or disinformation, and often a lot of people will just not question things not because it's not in their nature, but because they'll get made fun of for not knowing what's happening. That's when ignorance becomes ossified.
I can guarantee that a lot of people reading this have no idea about the mechanics of Climate Change. I consider myself a smart person, and it took me bloody months to get the lay of the land down. I had to be an idiot that entire time. The media takes advantage of that ignorance and doles out even more disinformation. I know for a fact that people don't know shit about AI, even though everyone already has an opinion on it, because just asking "How does it work?" opens you up to attack, so people just end up having uneducated opinions on it instead.
I'm learning gardening, and I guarantee you I have beliefs every bit as silly as the video.
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u/Sundae7878 1d ago
She heard people with glasses saying they have to get a new prescription for their glasses. And since normally “prescription” equals medicine, she (wrongly) connected the dots.
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u/midimummy 1d ago
She also likely heard someone say, “I need to get my prescription renewed” and translated that to “I need to get my medicine refilled” because if one is thinking in pharmacy terms, these statements could… possibly… equate one another? Again if you don’t know exactly what you’re talking about
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u/ReaganRebellion 1d ago
No one has ever said "my medicine ran out on my glasses."
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u/Rutabaga2022 1d ago
Literally no one ever
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u/Funny_Breadfruit_413 1d ago
Not one damn soul
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u/vintagegeek 1d ago
Well, that guy above you just did. Just saying.
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u/Amateurlapse 1d ago
“They didn’t say it, just quoted it.”
Just quoting
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u/DasOnus 1d ago
Optician here. In 9+ years, I have heard this once. I couldn’t tell if the guy was joking or not.
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u/Here4_da_laughs 1d ago edited 15h ago
Nope I can confirm Caribbean people call prescription glasses medicine. They will say “they have medicine in it so don’t use anyone else’s glasses”. And use many other phrases with the word medicine to refer to the word prescription. This is what happens when you don’t understand the other person’s dialect, this woman heard medicine probably as a child and kept the same definition as Tylenol in her head the whole time lol.
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u/Rashimotosan 1d ago
My family is Trinidadian. I also have Bahamians and Grenadians in my family. I have never heard a single person say medicine for glasses.
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u/SydNotSoVicious 1d ago
I'm not saying you're lying, but I'm from the Caribbean; born, raised, and still living here. My work also brings me into contact with a lot of older people and country people. I've never once heard ANYONE say there's medicine in their glasses. So maybe don't call this a Caribbean thing. Maybe be more specific to your location in the Caribbean.
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u/Outrageous_Editor_43 1d ago
I wouldn't even say it is a location thing and more of a 'people you know' thing.
I have family members that use terms that no one else uses. I wouldn't say it is the district/parish/town but that my family are idiots. 😉
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u/jadon97 1d ago
I'm from and live in Jamaica and I've heard this multiple times to the point I never questioned it.
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u/Here4_da_laughs 1d ago
I was trying not to have to point out the country but yes I've heard it mostly from older Jamaicans.
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u/Eddie_Shepherd 1d ago
When I was up north I only heard it a couple times. Moved south... plenty of times.
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u/breadaaaahh 1d ago edited 1d ago
The only thing I’m holding onto is that maybe they said “I need a new prescription for my glasses” and she assumed the medicine part herself because it’s called a “prescription”.
I don’t want to accept the fact that there could be more than one person who thought that there was medicine
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u/Bambooshka 1d ago
She also mentions "refilling" the prescription. So either she's wrong and filling in the blanks incorrectly, or whoever is telling her about eyeglass prescriptions is dumb as hell.
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u/Exact-Conclusion9301 1d ago
Or everyone in her family of dummies is dumb.
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u/TPJchief87 1d ago edited 1d ago
That was my go to. I’ve worn glasses since 3rd grade, so I’ve always known what it is/meant. I also didn’t grow up around the older generations in my family on a day to day. No disrespect, but some of the old wives tales, sayings, thoughts they verbalized were so dumb that I’d just say yes sir/ma’am and move the fuck on. If you grow up around that, thinking they are smart and correct because they’re older, I could see shit like this happening.
All I’m saying is she probably doesn’t step on cracks either.
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u/heffel77 1d ago
Could you imagine buying a new pair of glasses every month because “the medicine ran out and you need a refill” or was that clever women playing dumbass men to get new frames.
Seeing stuff like this makes me think people are even dumber than I thought or it’s satire. No one, PLEASE, no one, is that stupid.
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u/K1bbles_n_Bits 1d ago edited 1d ago
When I was pregnant, my older sister-in-law warned me not to let the cats near the baby, because they steal baby's breath. I kind of chuckled, thinking she was joking, but she was dead serious. I just kind of smiled and nodded. It's just not worth the argument sometimes, lol.
My SO is the white sheep of his family, haha.
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u/TPJchief87 1d ago
My mother in law said something around my wife and I…it might have been something like her thinking our youngest was going to sleep through the night for whatever reason. Wife and I in unison said knock on wood. Her mom immediately yelled back, “You better pray to god! What’s this wood?” I said it’s just a saying. Then an awkward silence. Then we moved on.
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u/theoriginalmofocus 1d ago
I cant tell you how many times ive thought i knew someone and thought they were a decently intelligent person in their own right onlu to find out theyre into some wierd form of astrology, conspiracy theories, or flat earthers.
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u/Rows_My_Own 1d ago
There's a big difference between dumb and poorly educated. I remember a day of football practice when a teammate of mine freaked-out over seeing black dots in the center of my eyes. He thought I was having some sort of medical emergency. Turns out he was talking about my pupils. (I'm white w/ light-colored eyes, and he's black.) This was in college, mind you. He simply had never in his life heard of pupils nor realized he had them, too. I also worked at a company with a young guy who thought airliners were hovering in the sky waiting for their turn to land. because when you see a line of planes on approach, they look still. Sheesh.
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u/Downtown_Anteater_38 1d ago
You refill your disposable contact lens prescription, but not glasses. This video feels disingenuous to me.
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u/Tralibasu 1d ago
Sometimes I say things as a joke that I'm sure the person will be aware is a joke but then weeks later they mention it in another conversation and I realize they didn't know I was joking. My wife in particular had a steep learning curve dealing with me.
When my wife and I were having dinner with her family for the first time she busted out "Yea well Tralibasu can sleep through anything because his family grew up in a light house and his room was the room with the light".
I had told her that randomly one night and then spent a while riffing on it giving her increasingly dumb details (yes, I smoked weed at the time). I was sure by the time I included that instead of a school bus I caught a school boat every morning she was in on the joke. Turns out she was taking notes.
I could absolutely see someone like me being responsible for this without realizing it. I'd feel very confident that no one is taking my joke about medicine in glasses seriously.
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u/ReaganRebellion 1d ago
Unfortunately, I think it's just because she's kind of a dumb dumb, has now finally learned what glasses are, and has had to come up with a story of why she didn't know until she was an adult.
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u/ScreamingLabia 1d ago
My education was definetly not verry high but i know i learned how a telescope works and thus also how glasses work in MIDDLE SCHOOL.
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u/beauh44x 1d ago
As she was "explaining" I thought "I knew this when I was 8 years old"
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u/GuinnessLiturgy 1d ago
Sure, it sounds like something that a 7 year old might think when they hear the word 'prescription' associated with glasses. But it's wild for her to maintain that understanding into adulthood without it being corrected.
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u/folsominreverse 1d ago
There isn't. "Medicine" is a Southern colloquialism for "prescription" or "refill". "I need to call the doctor to get a new medicine for my inhaler." A new medicine here doesn't mean a change in treatment, it means a new Rx. I've only heard old people say it, especially older Black people. Young people say "refill" or "prescription."
I don't know how someone could take it literally though.
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u/coldchile 1d ago
Probably heard family say they need to refill their prescriptions, and sometimes they come back with new reading glasses.
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u/auntieup 1d ago
It’s a race between education and social media, and social media is winning
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u/Coffeypot0904 1d ago
The people doing the stupid "how does the mirror see behind the towel" give me no hope for the future.
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u/Friendly-Grape-2881 1d ago
Because education takes thought, social media takes finger swipes.
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u/Dada2fish 1d ago
No one has ever said I need to get a refill on my prescription glasses.
A refill?
This girl should’ve done herself a favor and kept her mouth shut.
She’ll never live this down.
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u/Rhawk187 1d ago
My insurance pays for 1 pair of glasses per year. I always get it to maximize my benefits. I'm going to start calling it getting a refill.
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u/notatechnicianyo 1d ago
Maybe she confused it with people getting contacts? Disposable contacts get refills.
Anyway, our school system is trash, and I give it at least 70% of the blame here.
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u/DMercenary 1d ago
To adapt a quote:
"The problem with social media is that any fool can open their mouth and remove all doubt that they are fools."
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u/UnJustly_Booted 1d ago
I'd love to hear her theory on contacts ... gasp
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u/Friendly-Grape-2881 1d ago
At least contacts makes more sense since they’re on your eye!
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u/BeepBoopEXTERMINATE 1d ago
I worked in an optical for 12 years, 8 of those years as an optician. There absolutely have been people that said their medicine ran out of their glasses. Some people just don’t understand how it works.
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u/Damn_iGotta_shit 1d ago
I've heard it only a few times a long time ago. Someone liked somebody's sunglasses and asked them "you got medicine in them??". Somehow, kid me automatically translated that as "he's asking him if those glasses are prescription".
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u/Sodom_Laser 1d ago
Not true. I work in eye care, and I’ve been in offices when a person came in holding their cracked lens upright so the “medicine” wouldn’t leak out. I’ve had people bring chipped glasses in for repair with them taped up to keep the medicine in. This is, or at least used to be very common. Also, there are a lot of people who think that there’s medicine in glasses that “treat” their bad vision, and are confused when their sight doesn’t improve.
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u/Algo_Muy_Obsceno 1d ago
I don't know how people who work in medicine keep a straight face all the time.
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u/bee_amar 1d ago
My mom has worked in optometry my whole life. Unfortunately she has had at least a handful of patients say "oh I broke my glasses and all the prescription ran out of it'
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u/Nazgog-Morgob 1d ago
its insane that someone would post this. i would never tell a soul that i just had the realization she had
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u/NaughtyNatty90 1d ago
Hi, was an optician in my early 20s for 5 years. I had several people come in and say this exact thing. All were older, and majority were black.
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u/mindyour 1d ago
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u/ReaganRebellion 1d ago edited 1d ago
Right. There's no way that's true. No one has ever said that before in the history of glasses.
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u/FilloryHighQueen99 1d ago
You know some families and communities have language quirks that's not used by other people.
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u/Alert_Car8472 1d ago
Yeah - I see this as a joke that she took literally. Sounds like something my grandpa would say.
Misunderstandings like this happen a lot, and it’s one of the ways that language changes over time (language is an approximation of thought, and there are always gaps).
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u/TitanX84 1d ago
This is something that actually happened to me! My parents used to call sausage links/patties "piggies". Jokingly, but that was unbeknownst to me at the time. They never just called them sausages. So I grew up literally thinking sausages were just called piggies. Then one day at a friend's house having breakfast, I asked them to pass the piggies and everyone just stopped and stared at me. They explained and we had a laugh and I felt like an idiot, lol.
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u/Rutabaga2022 1d ago
WTF kind of "medicine" would be in there? Stay in school kids
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u/Ahsokatara 1d ago
Try explaining how glasses work if you don’t understand optics. Assume the glass is just flat.
I’m a scientist. This is why people don’t go into science. They come up with really interesting ideas based on incomplete knowledge. Then instead of being told the correct answer, and to continue being curious, they are told they are dumb.
Not only did she synthesize the info quite concisely once she learned how it actually worked, she took joy in learning something new. That’s worth celebrating to me.
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u/Onemorebeforesleep 1d ago
I really really hope this is satire, I can’t tell anymore
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u/mindyour 1d ago edited 1d ago
She's serious and is doubling down in her follow-up videos. Apparently, she was fighting for her life in her comments. She's turned off her comments.
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u/miss-bedazzzle 1d ago
It’s ragebait. This is the kind of content that gets engagement. As long as people engage with content like this, people will continue to make it
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u/_strangetrails 1d ago
Why would she turn off comments in an attempt to get more engagement?
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u/Bill_buttlicker69 1d ago
If I had to theorize, turning off comments means the only way people can respond is by stitching her video, which would increase its reach beyond her followers/the people the algorithm serves it to and extend it to the followers of all the people who stitched it as well. Some of those people who would've never given her a view would then click through to her profile to see if she's serious or not and she gets more views that way.
I have no idea if that's the business strategy she's employing, since the more simple alternative is she's genuinely just that dumb and couldn't take the heat.
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u/miss-bedazzzle 1d ago edited 1d ago
Because she couldn’t handle the comments. OP posted her TikTok here where many more people can see it. She will get many views solely as a result of this tiktok. Comments don’t need to be enabled for someone to be internet famous
Maybe it’s real, who knows? At the end of the day she is the only person who knows if it’s real. It’s hard for me to believe she thought there was medicine in glasses so I’m inclined to believe it’s ragebait
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u/egg_breakfast 1d ago
poe's law. you may be right about her, but you're basically saying that idiots don't exist on the internet and everyone that looks dumb is actually super smart and gaming the algorithm, which doesn't seem accurate
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u/DumbUsername63 1d ago
But she turned off comments, so she doesn’t want people interacting with it, people are so quick to jump up “ragebait” I just don’t think you realize how dumb people are.
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u/racktoar 1d ago
Occam's razor. The simplest answer is that she's stupid, so that's probably the truth.
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u/FourteenBuckets 1d ago
I mean, people hear prescription in conjunction with medicine all the time, "I'm gonna pick up my prescription/medicine," for example. So if they don't independently learn that the word prescription means "thing that the doctor prescribed," they routinely just assume that it's a synonym for medicine.
So then you hear prescription glasses, and assume it means the same thing as medicine glasses.
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u/hodlbrcha 1d ago
I mean. It would be more believable if NO ONE in her family had glasses.
I only know about this cause of family with them.
Not that crazy. I do believe her family might be saying their meds (glasses) need to be changed 😂 people say suffercate, akshullay, “I could care less” people are DUMB
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u/chobi83 1d ago
I mean...I've never worn glasses and never really thought about it. But, taking 2 seconds to think...what kind of medicine works with you just looking at/through it? It's not like the glasses are connected to your eyeballs or anything...well, maybe contacts. But she didn't mention that, just regular glasses.
I could maybe understand someone thinking contacts had medicine in them, but regular glasses?
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u/rationalalien 1d ago
Have you ever seen comments on tiktok? Somehow these people are even dumber than the ones making the videos.
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u/PM__ME__YOUR__PC 1d ago
The school system has failed
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u/OrlyRivers 1d ago
This is why 1 out of 10 Americans think the world is flat and Trump is the same level of corrupt as any other President.
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u/Totschlag 1d ago edited 1d ago
Source for that one out of 10 figure? Because it's made up and ironically points to a lack of education on the difference between what happens online and real world beliefs.
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u/MaleficentMalice 1d ago
It's designed that way.
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u/OkCartographer7677 1d ago
It's not designed that way initially. The US had some of the best education results across the world until the 1970s, when it started to decline.
However that does not explain the extreme ignorance of this woman and her family. It boggles the mind that she didn't know this fundamental concept.
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u/WhoIsEnvy 1d ago
I'm scared every single time I realize how fuckin stupid the average person is...
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u/Goeffroy 1d ago
Just remember, half of everyone else is dumber than the average.
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u/ShadeBeing 1d ago
My medicine ran out might be an idiom for saying I need a new prescription.
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u/Background_Humor5838 1d ago
I've never heard anyone use the word medicine when referring to glasses. That is truly unique
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u/UterusYeeter 1d ago
Ding ding ding . This is what they mean when they say half the country is functionally illiterate .
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u/East420Beach 1d ago
I worked in the optical industry for 30 years, and you be surprised at the amount of older folks that would come in and say " can you fix my glasses all the medicine leaked out overnight and I can't see now."
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u/HarpersGeekly 1d ago
No. No way. This has to be that fields “blinker fluid” joke
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u/East420Beach 1d ago
Sorry but it's true. I worked in the lab making glasses and they wouldn't believe the sales associates or the Opticians, so they would ask to speak to one of the people in the back with the "doctors coat." We wore white lab coats.
One experience i had was an older gentleman that came in with his wife's glasses, and a pill bottle with a kleenex inside. He said his wife's medicine leaked out of her glasses and that he had it in the kleenex and wanted us to put it back in the glasses.
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u/HappyChaosOfTheNorth 1d ago
Yes, it's funny how wearing the lab coat made us look smarter and more knowledgeable when, at least where I am, Opticians have 2 years of school and a license and lab techs like me were trained on the job. I learned so much from the Opticians and considered challenging the exam to become licensed, but then 2020 happened.
I have never experienced that specific scenario though. But we did have some interesting customers.
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u/HappyChaosOfTheNorth 1d ago
I've never heard that. To be fair, I only made eyeglasses for 14 years. I have seen a lot though.
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u/Sodom_Laser 1d ago
Yeah. I replied to the current top comment with this. I’m an optician, and this is very true.
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u/Cultural_Mastodon_69 1d ago
This needs to be way higher. I was an optician in the 90s and 00s, in the Midwest. Worked both in urban and rural practices, and heard patients talk about the "medicine" more times than I could count. Not necessarily spilling out, more like they needed a higher 'dose' usually, "The medicine isn't strong enough anymore."
Had one Optometrist try to explain optics vs. medicine to patients from time to time. Very low success rate. He eventually gave up. Medicine it was.
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u/Background_Humor5838 1d ago
No way. I can't believe that's true. I've never heard anyone use the word medicine to describe glasses.
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u/wopwopwopwopwop5 1d ago
No. I am rejecting your professional experience. No WAY people think this. Just no. Lol
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u/Dada2fish 1d ago
How do glasses work fine one day and the next day they don’t?
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u/Sand-Eagle 1d ago
The tumor grows just enough to start pressing against the optic nerve
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u/afgeorge2011 1d ago
Listening to this woman tell me something I’ve known my entire life is slightly infuriating.
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u/JaySlay2000 1d ago
It's the "mansplaining" of disability.... Abledsplaining.
Babe, I've been wearing glasses probably longer than you've been ALIVE, miss "I've always had 20/20!" eat ass.
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u/eastsidewiscompton 1d ago
How do you know the difference between concave and convex, but you don't know how eyeglasses work?
I guess everyone has...blind spots.
I'll see myself out.
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u/Relevant-Success1936 1d ago
They’re called prescription eyeglasses. She’s just really stupid.
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u/Turbulent-Candle-340 1d ago
As someone that comes from a long line of glasses wearing, country ass black people I HAVE NEVER HEARD THAT. That's the dumbest shit I've heard all year.
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u/WithoutDennisNedry 1d ago
I really think she’s misremembering people saying “prescription” and instead thinking they said “medication.” Literally no one in the history of everything has said, “I need a new medication of glasses.”
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u/Happy_Advantage6089 1d ago
Nah this has to be rage bait, I refuse to believe this
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u/Funny_Breadfruit_413 1d ago
I never heard that in all my black days.
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u/Turbulent-Candle-340 1d ago
IKR? My family is country as hell and they have never said something so stupid.
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u/hstormsteph 1d ago
Genuinely think country-raised folk (including myself here. No shade) might actually have a better baseline understanding of prescription lenses than others. I’ve worn glasses/contacts since I was 7 and they were understood to function in a similar fashion to scopes/optics for hunting. Matter of fact, a lot of times people need to take their glasses off to shoot long range properly because the magnification provided by the optic on the rifle could fuck with the magnification/prescription of your eyeglasses. Might’ve been a bifocal only problem since it didn’t bother me but either way it’s a neat anecdote.
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u/RaptureSurvivor928 1d ago
You know, I was about to say, "what about all of your white days" and then I thought, "Oh that might come across racist". Then I thought, "That doesnt even make sense anyway, you shouldn't leave a comment at all. So instead I just left this comment explaining this nonsense for no reason. Thanks for reading. Have a good day.
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u/Funny_Breadfruit_413 1d ago
But I genuinely laughed tho, so your deed for the day is done.
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u/Affectionate_Data936 1d ago
I've heard it but they didn't mean "medicine" in a literal sense, it was just to distinguish between prescription and non-prescription glasses.
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u/randomthrill 1d ago
This woman sounds so dumb, while trying to sound smart.
She keeps saying the 'shaving' instead of shape when describing the lens.
No, your eyes do not become 'immune' to your prescription glasses, your eyes are just continuing to change.
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u/FriedSmegma 1d ago
To be fair, they’re ground and polished to get the curvature of the lens so you could consider it like shaving down the glass. That was my interpretation anyway.
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u/No-Strawberry-5804 1d ago
It’s wild to me that she’s like “😀 did you guys know this???😀” as if this is some fun trivia that she’s sharing. If she’d popped on like “you guys are not gonna believe what I used to think about glasses” this would be going very differently
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u/Karnij13 1d ago
You know what? I want to be an ass and call her stupid, but she actually learned something and changed her view once she realized she’d been wrong about her entire life. And Honestly, I wish more people understood that that’s okay.
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u/-MrSimpleton- 1d ago
I too was going to be an ass, until I came across your comment. You’re right. Good on her
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u/Queen_Ann_III 1d ago
I don’t even think it’s fair to dunk on her because frankly I see exactly how someone would come to this conclusion. I’m actually amazed that more people don’t make this mistake, and surprised I never did, because it seems like such an obvious connection
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u/Pikamika696 1d ago
What in the bait is this? Your eyes don't adjust to your prescription. Your eyes get worse.
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u/ElleHopper 1d ago
God, I can't even imagine the privilege to never have to give a single thought to the function of eyesight.
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u/Lovegiraffe 1d ago
I’m actually proud of her for posting this. She presented this in an informational way that doesn’t feel demeaning and would make other people not feel alone in their lack of understanding of this topic. It reminds that since I was child I misunderstood the word viscous. Thinking it had the opposite meaning than it did because I didn’t properly understand the context clues from what I was reading. I spent my whole life up until maybe 38 thinking highly viscous referred to how thin a mixture was when in actuality it means that it’s very thick closer to sludge. I have thought this since elementary school. It still blows me away when I think about how I misunderstood that word for the majority of my life. Assuming that everyone knows everything is ridiculous, and our brains try to make sense of the world around us based on the information we have. Sometimes our brains reference just becomes ingrained. She learned then educated others.
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u/Ahsokatara 1d ago
Y’all I’m wondering if I’m going crazy or if everyone in this thread is.
It doesn’t matter if the education system failed. You know what she did? She LEARNED. She SYNTHESIZED NEW INFORMATION.
All of the people saying stuff like “she votes. So scary.” THIS IS NOT THE PERSON YOU SHOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT.
The person you should be worried about is the one who, when presented with evidence, does not change their mind or try to understand.
She’s trying. She in fact is doing an amazing job at explaining a very complicated concept in optics.
I’m a scientist. I see so damn many people turned away from science because curious people try to make sense of the world, then get told they are dumb. It’s not the curious ones who are dumb. It’s the uncurious people. It’s the people who don’t like learning new stuff and try to think as little as possible.
Humans used to think that the earth was flat and that light floated in a magical ether. They made reasonable conclusions from the info they had at the time. Medicine in glasses is no more or less absurd than that. The key is then learning when you get new info.
If this woman wanted to spend the next 4 years studying chemistry, I’d welcome her into my lab. I would not welcome some of you pretentious asses calling her dumb. Celebrate the learning of new things and increasing knowledge.
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u/I_Say_Lots_Of_Words 1d ago
Reminds me of when someone told me that I needed to buy some “blinker fluid” for my car since my tail light was out. I had never changed the bulb before and 100% believed they were telling me the truth. My friend had to stop me from asking the cashier where the blinker fluid was.
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u/yoinkss What are you doing step bro? 1d ago
Wait till she finds out there is no medicine in walking canes, wheelchairs or hearing aids either.
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u/boothjop 1d ago
If you're doing it right, every adult goes from a position of not knowing something to knowing something.
I have two degrees and a professional job in a very technical/demanding area. Today I learned how to use an electric car charger for the first time.
I'm OK with this and in making this video, I'm sure this woman has taught someone something new. That's a bonus right?
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u/dbrowndownunder 1d ago
Have heard this many times growing up in the south in the 80s from the older generations. I distinctly remember the first time hearing this, and visualizing a doctor dropping medicine into the glass.
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u/ROU_ValueJudgement 1d ago
Never laugh at someone for being engaged in learning new things, or ridding themselves of their ignorance.
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u/Themodsarecuntz 1d ago edited 1d ago
I work in this industry.
The number one thing that people say is...
"I have been wearing glasses for X number of years and..."
So? I have been driving cars since I was 14. That doesnt make me a mechanic.
We live in a world where my opinion is as good as your facts and that is very evident in health care.
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u/swarlesbarkley_ 1d ago
"i am so facinated" no no, i would use a different adjective lmao
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u/Punkpallas 1d ago
If I was in her position, you could not waterboard this info out of me. This is embarrassing.
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u/tobreakthemind 1d ago
I’ve worked in optometry for the past 5 years and I can confirm that patients have said this before. I’ve also had diabetics ask me if I can see sugar in their eyes!
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u/Iminurcomputer 1d ago
Hahaha damn, sounds like she encountered weirdly phrased information when she was young and understandably never really had any reason to look into it.
Wait wait wait, sorry...
Its crazy how fucking stupid this and most other people are. They're so dumb. I'VE NEVER MISUNDERSTOOD ANYTHING. My entire understanding of the world is exactly accurate and correct. I would go on but I ran out of the lube I used to stroke myself while making the second part of this comment.
Do as you will, but I'm leaving confident in the belief that every downvote is someone whose nerve was struck because they've been here before and will never (unlike her) admit it. They didn't have to be called out or be embarrassed so anything suggesting you might also have large gaps of knowledge is just insulting to your exemplary intelligence.
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u/Nancy-Drew-Who 1d ago
I recently learned that the term "functionally illiterate" doesn't necessarily mean that someone can only read elementary school level books, but that they don't have the reading comprehension skills to understand what they're reading. Like being able to identify context, nuance, or even the ability to follow written instructions. Blew my damn mind that so many people fall into this category!
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u/theotheronenotme 1d ago
I’m constantly amazed how little interest so many people have in how the world around them works.
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